Town house (Zug)
| Townhouse | |
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 Town house, Kolinbrunnen, Kolinplatz in Zug |
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| Data | |
| place | train |
| Construction year | 1543, 1665, 1903 |
| Coordinates | 681 655 / 224453 |
The town house in Zug , formerly called the Bossardhaus , is a formerly bourgeois residential building that now houses parts of the Zug city administration. The building was built from stone in 1543, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was raised by parts made of half-timbering and later changed. The facade is adorned with a painting depicting the Kappeler milk soup .
history
This house originally closed off a row of houses that delimited the eastern part of Kolinplatz and in part fell victim to a fire in 1586. During the renovation of the adjoining Kolinhaus in 1665, the owner was obliged to expand the neighboring house. At the beginning of the 20th century, the doctor and tin collector Dr. Gustav Bossard rebuild this house by the architect Karl Peikert.
In the masonry of the first and second floors you can see symmetrical, two- and three-part window groups in the late Gothic style. The third floor with the frame construction could be dated to the years 1586 or 1665. Inside the building there are paintings on the walls and ceilings as well as three old ovens, one of which is located here in the town's wedding room and was created in 1915 by the master potter Josef Keizer.
The building, which was bought by the city of Zug around 1977 to house part of the administration, was renovated in 1979–1981.
Facade painting
The facade was originally decorated with an ornament very different from what can be seen today and which dates back to the end of the 17th century. Towards the end of the 19th century, a view by the painter Franz Moos (born 1854) above the entrance shows death, disguised as a hunter, aiming his crossbow at the approaching person, while the archangel Michael and a putto are blowing soap bubbles into the Air swirls, have their place above the windows. Since 1903 the house has undergone a renovation and at the end of it, Gustav Bossard had the motif of the Kappeler milk soup from the time of the confessional war of 1529 painted on the plaster of the facade .
This picture, commissioned in 1910, is the work of a painter from Ticino , Viktor Emanuel Camanini, from Someo , who lives in Lucerne , and a decorative painter and entrepreneur, Emil Kniepp, who also lives in Lucerne. Nowadays the work is signed «Camanini & Kniepp. Rest. 1981 Walser ». The people who stood here as models to illustrate the scene in question have been identified: they were friends of the client, members of the “Abendglockengesellschaft”, a sociable association that soon found itself in the “Café Fédéral” at the beginning of the 20th century in the «Hotel Bellevue». Seen from left to right, you notice the gentlemen: Gustav Bossard next to an unidentified person, in the middle the stone sculptor Conrad Bissegger, followed by the goldsmith Karl Schnell, then the pharmacist Fritz Eyss-Gräniger and finally August Keizer.
literature
- Linus Birchler: The art monuments of the canton of Zug (series The art monuments of Switzerland ). Birkhäuser 1934, pp. 500–502.
proof
- ↑ Linus Birchler: The art monuments of the canton of Zug. (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz), Birkhäuser 1934, pp. 500–502.
- ^ Art guide through Switzerland (Aargau, Appenzell, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Thurgau, Zug, Zurich). Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2005, I, pp. 711–712.
- ↑ Restore, or even make it disappear? Article im Vaterland , March 15, 1980. ( Today's Luzerner Zeitung emerged from the Vaterland and the Luzerner Tagblatt as well as the Lucerne Latest News .)
